Northwest History. State History. Box 232. Strikes, Cont'd.

The striking Seattle local of the
Lumber and Sawmill Workers'
union will not vote "until the membership demands it," E. C. Jorgen-
sen, business agent, said today.
A vote on the proposal, which
calls for acceptance of the employers' offer of a wage increase of
7% cents an hour pending negotiation of the union's demands for an
increase of 10 cents an hour, was
recommended yesterday by the
Federation of Woodworkers. Seven
mills are closed at Seattle and five
are working on the 10-cent compromise plan.
New Firm Hit.
Other locals over the district
were reported voting today. Forty-five hundred Tacoma workers
were reported yesterday by Homer
L. Haney, president of the Tacoma
local, to have rejected it.
Another Seattle firm was forced
into idleness today by the jurisdictional dispute between the
Longshoremen-Affiliated Weighers,
Warehousemen and Cereal Worki
ers' union and the Warehouse Drivers and Helpers' union, a Teamsters' union branch.
The firm was the West Coas)
Kalsomine company, where pickel
lines turned employees back wherj
they reported for work, companj
officials said. Three Seattle wholesale drug houses are still closed bj
the same dispute.
Beck Is Adamant.
Dave Beck, teamsters' union
leader, declined to comment on the
stand taken yesterday by officials
of the Maritime Federation of the
Pacific and the Federation of
Woodworkers, claiming 125,000
members along the Coast. In a
statement, the officials of the two]
federations said they were laying
plans to "stop the infringement of
dictatorial officials of the tearn^
sters' union and other craft un-
He indicated, however, the team^
sters' union has no intention of retreating from its stand, saying:
"The American Federation of Labor has awarded us jurisdiction
over inland warehousemen. We
intend to p

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The striking Seattle local of the
Lumber and Sawmill Workers'
union will not vote "until the membership demands it," E. C. Jorgen-
sen, business agent, said today.
A vote on the proposal, which
calls for acceptance of the employers' offer of a wage increase of
7% cents an hour pending negotiation of the union's demands for an
increase of 10 cents an hour, was
recommended yesterday by the
Federation of Woodworkers. Seven
mills are closed at Seattle and five
are working on the 10-cent compromise plan.
New Firm Hit.
Other locals over the district
were reported voting today. Forty-five hundred Tacoma workers
were reported yesterday by Homer
L. Haney, president of the Tacoma
local, to have rejected it.
Another Seattle firm was forced
into idleness today by the jurisdictional dispute between the
Longshoremen-Affiliated Weighers,
Warehousemen and Cereal Worki
ers' union and the Warehouse Drivers and Helpers' union, a Teamsters' union branch.
The firm was the West Coas)
Kalsomine company, where pickel
lines turned employees back wherj
they reported for work, companj
officials said. Three Seattle wholesale drug houses are still closed bj
the same dispute.
Beck Is Adamant.
Dave Beck, teamsters' union
leader, declined to comment on the
stand taken yesterday by officials
of the Maritime Federation of the
Pacific and the Federation of
Woodworkers, claiming 125,000
members along the Coast. In a
statement, the officials of the two]
federations said they were laying
plans to "stop the infringement of
dictatorial officials of the tearn^
sters' union and other craft un-
He indicated, however, the team^
sters' union has no intention of retreating from its stand, saying:
"The American Federation of Labor has awarded us jurisdiction
over inland warehousemen. We
intend to p